Public Affairs & Policy
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-05 | Author:Noam Chomsky [Chomsky, Noam]

Notes 1. David Sanger, NYT, February 17, 1997; Youssef Ibrahim, NYT, December 13, 1996; Harvey Cox, World Policy Review, Spring 1997; Martin Nolan, Boston Globe, March 5, 1997; John Buell, ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 26,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:John Vaillant

Yuri Trush appreciated and respected these qualities in the tiger. While investigating the site of the Markov attack, and while writing his report that weekend, he had made a sincere ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-05-01 | Author:Peter Moskos

If prisons are broken, then so, too, is prison reform. With the exception of a few Supreme Court decisions in their favor, prison reformers have an awfully bad track record ...
( Category: Social Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Hansen, James [Hansen, James]

IN 2007, THE ENVIRONMENTALIST AND writer Bill McKibben began bugging me, very politely, to either confirm 450 parts per million as the appropriate target level of carbon dioxide in the ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-01-04 | Author:James Hansen

I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with. To assume that it is a problem is to assume that ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-11-27 | Author:Michael Shellenberger; Ted Nordhaus

THE RISE AND FALL OF ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS A Cautionary Tale Mark Sagoff In September of 1982, a group of scholars met in Stockholm intending to reform — even to revolutionize ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | | Author:Rogers, Heather [Rogers, Heather]

CHAPTER SIX The Price of Air: Carbon Offsets Gudibanda is a string of dusty villages about sixty kilometers north of Bangalore in the southern state of Karnataka, India. The landscape ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | | Author:Spratt, David & Sutton, Philip [Spratt, David]

CHAPTER 17 When ‘Reasonable’ Is Not Enough In November 2007, UN secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon told the world that global warming is an emergency, and ‘for emergency situations we need emergency ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |ru | 2011-09-20 | Author:Cynthia Barnett

After the philosophers, the academics, and the Christians, there was still one crucial authority I had yet to mine for ethical truths about water. And that was YouTube. One Saturday ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-06-03 | Author:Jason L. Riley

AMERICA’S HARDEST WORKERS The journalist Tamar Jacoby once wrote that “most foreigners, whether they arrive legally or illegally, come to the United States to work. Most do not come in ...
( Category: Cultural Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-16 | Author:Vali Nasr

On the campaign trail, Obama had said that Iraq was a misguided enterprise, a needless and costly war of choice that had tarnished America’s image. So it was not a ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-08-03 | Author:Andrew Bacevich

4 RECONSTITUTING THE TRINITY By the 1980s, the American penchant for intervention was already showing signs of robust recovery, with defenders of the Washington consensus enjoying similar success in reshaping ...
( Category: National & International Security March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | | Author:Bacevich, Andrew [Bacevich, Andrew]

4 RECONSTITUTING THE TRINITY By the 1980s, the American penchant for intervention was already showing signs of robust recovery, with defenders of the Washington consensus enjoying similar success in reshaping ...
( Category: National & International Security March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Fareed Zakaria

Blind and Toothless After winning its independence, India was eager to play a large role on the world stage. This ambition was inherited from Britain, which ran a great deal ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-10-11 | Author:Thom Hartmann

Banks should be thought of as public utilities, even if they’re privately run. They exist to take deposits, facilitate commerce, and lend money to businesses and individuals. As such they ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 25,2014 )